Lamine Touré, director of Rambax, comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Born into a family of sabar drummers, Lamine has been drumming and dancing since the age of four. He is one of Senegal’s leading percussionists. Touré...
Peter Whincop, Lecturer, is a composer of electronic compositions, live improvisations, and installations with a highly idiosyncratic, original, and multi-modal approach to sound design. Individual, musical, smart and tactile, Peter’s music, like his teaching, stem from a love of sound and sonic...
Evan Ziporyn, Head of Music and Theater Arts, is a composer/clarinetist who has forged an international reputation through his genre-defying, cross-cultural works and performances. At MIT he is Inaugural Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), founder and Artistic Director...
MITHAS presents: Sandhya Manoj, Odissi dancer, and Aishwarya Balasubramanian, Bharatnatyam dancer, in a shared program. 4 pm, Kresge Little Theater. General admission $30. All students free. Visit http://www.mithas.org or contact: mithastimes@gmail.com for final listings as changes may occur.
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Ellen T. Harris (eharris@mit.edu) B.A. ’67 Brown University; M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’76 University of Chicago, Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at MIT is a musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice. She is currently President of the American Musicological...
Lowell Lindgren, Professor Emeritus of Music, Ph.D. in Musicology, Harvard University, writes about Baroque topics, focusing on London, Rome and stage design. His publications from 2001 to the present include twenty-five entries in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2001), a...
SHASS Research Fund Awards 2015
Five out of the twelve 2015 SHASS Research Fund awards were awarded to members of the MIT Music and Theater Arts faculty. The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important...